Quotes About Restoration

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be. Something of us is now outside, and something of the outside is now within us.

I got better.

For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed.

We need a Marshall Plan for the Earth.

Mrs. Latham patted Hayley's knee with a frail, liver-spotted hand. ''I'm sure you do, dear. And I'm afraid those kinds of losses don't get any easier as we grow older. Mrs. Latham turned, including Colton in her smile as she changed the subject. ''I'm so thrilled to finally be able to restore Victorian Oaks. It's been my dream for some time. I understand you grew up there, Colt said. Yes, indeed. I was a Palmer before I married Mr. Latham. It pains me to see the old house going to ruin.

The time to fix something is when it's first broken, not when it's shattered in so many pieces that there's not enough glue in the world to put it back together again.

no situation created by our sin is so horrible that God can't redeem it for good—both for us and for our families.

And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms.

While strategies of colonialism were about removing and seperating people from that which is most important to them, healing and recovery must be about restoring what has been taken, reconnecting people to the stories and context of one's life and family. (p. 19)

I've learned that a ten-minute shower and the gift of going to the toilet without a ticking clock restores much more in new parents than personal hygiene.

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

It would lead him back, restore him to himself, but there is nothing so distasteful as being restored to oneself when one is beside oneself.

God help our darkened and desecrated country and teach it to make its peace with the world and with itself!

Hope is proportionate to detachment. It brings our souls into the state of the most perfect detachment. In doing so, it restores all values by setting them in their right order. Hope empties our hands in order that we may work with them. It shows us that we have something to work for, and teaches us how to work for it.

AN ELDER was asked by a certain soldier if God would forgive a sinner. And he said to him: Tell me, beloved, if your cloak is torn, will you throw it away? The soldier replied and said: No. I will mend it and put it back on. The elder said to him: If you take care of your cloak, will God not be merciful to His own image?

Somewhere, among the wastes of the World, is the key that will bring us back, restore us to our Earth and to our freedom.

But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.' 'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God.

To those of us who are alienated from home, marginalized, cast out, or lost, God is crying out: I am your Father! I will do anything to buy you back, restore you to my family. Or as Jeremiah 29:11 says, "to give you hope and a future.

It's clear that love is the container in which broken hearts are rebuilt.

I believe in every part of my soul that one of the most world-changing practices of love is to help create corrective experiences for people—to have them experience, in the flesh, something different than the damage they received in their family, life, or church.

These teeth marks?" he said. "These stitches? They add to the beauty of the saddle, to the value. They announce it was worth saving. I won't replace it until it falls off in two pieces from the horse's back.

All suffering has an end.